ROGER PRICE MP Federal Member for Chifley WESTERN SVDN-EY TO PAY MORE Federal Member for Chifley, Roger Price MP today said that the decision by the Federal Government to build the Scoresby Freeway in Melbourne, at a cost of $1 Billion without the need for a toll, highlighted the need Sor similar treatment of the Western Sydney Orbital. “I call upon the Federal and NSW Governments to renegotiate the contract for the Western Sydney Orbital to ensure that there is no imposition of a toll on the Western Sydney region”, Mr Price said. The Scoresby Freeway, announced in the budget, will link Melbourne’s eastern and southern suburbs and is the equivalent of the NSW Western Sydney Orbital (which is due for completion in 2007 at a cost of $1.25 Billion). ‘But there is one big dIVeren&‘, Mr Price said. =And that is that neither the Federal Government nor the NSW Government are willing to give the people of Western Sydney a falir go.” While other regions receive essential transport infrastructure for free, the people of Western Sydney are being asked to fork out yet again. “A toil of beheen $5 and $7 on the proposed Western Sydney Orbital is another example of Western Sydney people being placed at financial disadvantage on transport infrastructure by the Federal and NSW Governments”, Mr Price said. ‘It’s daylight robbery’, he added. There have been suggestions that there will be up to 3 (three) separate toll points on the Western Sydney Orbital. “They’re willing to spend $2.2 Billion on the Pacific Highway and $1 Billion on the Scoresby Freeway but when it comes to helping the people who are crying out for decent trainsport infrastructure in Western Sydney, an area of rapidly growing economic significance and population, they think only of imposing another burd8n - another toll”, Mr Price said. “I will be campaigning ait the next election for this sordid agreement between the Federal and State Government to be renegotiated”, h8 said. 738 Victorian Government’s precedent on Scoresby shows that where there’s a will there’s a way”, he sald. There is now an urgent need to review the contract for the Western Sydney Orbital, to make it a toll free part of the National Highway.